PARLIAMENTARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 41, 16 August 1895, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES

JIINISTKBIAI, TRAVELLING XXPENS9S. A return presented to the House Testerd*y shows the amounts drawn by Ministers by way of travelling allowances aud expenses during the year ending 31st March last. The Premier received £162 for allowances and £696 13s 7d for expenses; Sir Patrick Buckley, £59 10s and .6119 15s; Mr. Ward, .£223 10s and .£179 6a 2.1 ; Mr. M'Kenzie, .£195 and .£278; Mr. Reeves, £121 and £106 9s sd ; Mr. Cadman, £8i 10a and £50 153 4d ; Mr. Carroll, £235 10s and £108 19s 6d ; Mr. Montgomery, £9 and £4. These amounts, together with £3 19s 6i for joint expenses, make up a total of £'2635 8s lOd. In the expenses ot all the Ministers exoept Mr. Cadman and Mr. Montgomery the cost of conveyance of Ministers' secretaries and other officers is included. The expenses of the Premier's native tour through the North Island reached £ioi Sa 6d. Of this amount Mr. b'eddon received £63 as allowances and £190 7a 5d for expenses, while Mr. Carroll drew £63 as allowance and £178 2s Id for oxpenaes. OUE. EXPOBTS. Here are the values of the seven principal articles of export dnrin? lasT; year :-(l) Wool, £4,827,016; (2) gold, £887,865; (3) grain, £213,405; (4) kauri gum, £104,567; (5) butter and cbeese, £366 483 ; (6) frozen meat, £1,194,515 ; (7) tallow, £204,4>'9. The figures as to the first rix in 1803 were re-spectively-(1) £3,774.738. (2) £915,921, (3i £574.442, (4) £510;775, (5) £.154,271; (6) £1,085,167. - Flax ceased to be one of the seven chief articles, falling from £219,375 to £66,256, and tallow made a firet appearance in the first flight. This information was procured on Mr. Duthie's motion. JOTTINGS. The Petitions Committee considers that Catherine Barnes, of Wellington, has no claim against the oolony. Mr. Tanner set tho Honae roaring last night by showing .elementary arithmetical blunders on the part of a choitman of an Education Board— Mr. Meredith. The Premier has given notice of the new Local Government Bill, as well as of the Native Land Laws Amendment Bill. " The Minister for Lands haa done nothing for the working men of the cities, and knows it."— Mr. Tanner. '" I have heard it eaid that the treaty with South Australia was made in the interests of Invercargill oats, and the Canadian treaty in the interests of binder -twine."— Mr. Button. Mr. J. W. Kelly intends to move that Messrs. Graham and R Thompson be added to the Bank of New Zealand Committee. HThere were 4067 Chinese in the colony on 31st March, 1894, and of these six had received charitable aid during the year. Four other ABiatios had received charitable aid.